timinman

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   by timinman 14y ago

   Most of the world didn't start believing in Zero as a number until after the 4th Century AD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0_(number) . It didn't seem rational. "How can something be nothing?" And there is the divide by problem you mentione
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   by timinman 14y ago

   Nice! You have me considering Ruby for games, too. I've played around a bit with python and javascript for games and used Ruby for the web. Now I'm itching to try Ruby + Chingu for a game.
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   by timinman 14y ago

   Great articles. Please add: "How Jokes and Parodies are turning HN into Reddit" :)
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   by timinman 14y ago

   That's a pretty sensational title, but it doesn't sound any smarter than my phone. Maybe 'model of a brain' would have been more accurate.
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   by timinman 14y ago

   If I'm not mistaken, this is a very thin veneer of science applied to a thick spread of dogma. 1. Test shows that smart subject is smart (capacity to learn, etc). 2. Subject of the test says meditation makes you happy. 3. The author then tr
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   Apparently YouTube Engineers are Monkeys(docs.google.com)

   1 points by timinman 14y ago|0 comments
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   by timinman 14y ago

   It's good to remind us to think about the person behind the product. I have to admit I was hoping the title was a literal description of the article, because that would be a really interesting read.
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   by timinman 14y ago

   This was brought on by an unforeseen natural evolution of antivirus software. 1. The software becomes sentient, learns to define, recognize and delete viruses on it's own. 2. The software realizes that by every definition it is itself a vir
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   by timinman 14y ago

   My favorite recent ruby drama was rails including Coffeescript by default: https://github.com/rails/rails/compare/9333ca7...23aa7da (You have to scroll down for the images)
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    by timinman 14y ago

    This is a stab in the dark, but I’m wondering if you picked ‘off the top of your head’? If so, the odds go way up as subconsciously reading the number may have put it in mind. (If that is the case, the phone hacked you!)
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    by timinman 14y ago

    Ha ha! 'More of a reward than a punishment.
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    by timinman 14y ago

    Both. I was able to complete the Codecademy Python exercises in a matter of hours, it's just getting your feet wet. LPtHW is more like work, but it will burn it into your brain. Also, start your own project immediately - even if it's just a
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    16 Million UK Bank Customers Can't get Money After failed Software Upgrade(telegraph.co.uk)

    2 points by timinman 14y ago|0 comments
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    by timinman 14y ago

    Matz, the creator of Ruby talks about why languages matter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix2DeCzuckc The basic idea is that the structure of the language determines how you think about the problem and influences what you create.
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    by timinman 14y ago

    'Looks nice. I bet it's expensive. If price were a feature, they would have mentioned it.
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    by timinman 14y ago

    OK here it is: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimponosx/
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    by timinman 14y ago

    Unless I'm missing something, the latest download available on that site is 2.6. I realize it's free software, so it probably is a little cheeky to complain, but it can't be a photoshop alternative if it's not available on OSX. From what I
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    by timinman 14y ago

    The latest release of Gimp (2.8) doesn't even run on OSX. I'd love to use it, but I can't.
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    by timinman 15y ago

    It's not loading for me at the moment.
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    by timinman 15y ago

    Yes, back up for me now, too. You might want to advise users to change the default password and login, since it's publicly viewable on github.
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    by timinman 15y ago

    http://natewienert.com resolves fine, but the link you provided reports: "We're sorry, but something went wrong." :)
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    by timinman 15y ago

    This is a fantastic discussion about what God might want (or not want). I am a person of faith, I'm impressed by the respectful tone of many commenters even thought they are obviously from very different backgrounds (rare in online discussi
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    by timinman 15y ago

    If it is Google, why doesn't it look like Google? Why is it 'wesolveforx', and not solveforx.google.com. Why PHP? Why do Whois records say the site belongs to: Registrant: TBA Global, LLC 535 N. Brand Blvd suite 800 Glendale, CA 9120
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    by timinman 15y ago

    Thanks for that. I mistakenly thought it only supported the two listed in the presentation.
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    by timinman 15y ago

    Once before starting a biggish app I sat down and wrote my own generators to create controllers with crud actions and views for them.
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    by timinman 15y ago

    I definitely love Sinatra, and I'm impressed by the admin interface, but it looks like there's no support for DataMapper as an ORM. I also wonder if this is just turning Sinatra into Rails. I think for the now I prefer to just build a Sinat
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    by timinman 15y ago

    I love the auto-completion.
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    by timinman 15y ago

    So great! And then you plussed it with an Easter Egg (418)!
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    by timinman 15y ago

    mirror?
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    by timinman 15y ago

    I did worry that people might feel I was trying to get free tech support. It's not really a problem I need to fix - I bought another adapter. I posted because though the behaviour seemed illogical to me I figured that there were people who